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Casual encounters are the best, but not only bad organized ones either. Especially in the past I happened to use couchsurfing. Certainly the Covid period hurt it a lot. After that it doesn’t seem to have recovered, I hope it goes back to being the fantastic system for meeting locals that it was.
Casual encounters, often, sometimes crucial
Casual encounters sometimes last the time of a chat, sometimes a lifetime. They can arise on a train or during a tour, but also in restaurants. Once, when I frequented hostels, even there, now in hotels it is difficult. So this is one of the reasons why I maintain that trips that go solo are the ones that can give the most excitement.
- Incredible encounters during business trip to UK
- Funniest nights out around the world
- Meetings on the road, bet dinner with a Korean woman in Germany
- New addicts also in Canada’s cities
- The Sultan of Oman, what to do in Muscat
- Touring Italy: original vs. classic itineraries
- Life and death in the Medina – things to do in Marrakech
- Visiting Malta, I can still entertain in English
- Trip to Bulgaria, by now I’m taking the beating
- Dolomites in summer, the Swiss mountaineer
- Desert in Oman, tented camp and die Italians
- Getting lost in the woods, the 00 trail, between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany
- The palace of Knossos; hard to be gay on an ‘island
- Sleeping in hostel, they all run away from me in Copenhagen
- On your trip to Jordan, don’t miss Jerash
- Bathing in the Dead Sea and bidding a Dutchman
- Visiting Petra with playful stray dogs
- Blind date, an evening in Dublin (Ireland).
- Christmas in New York, the world is small even in NY parties
- Trip to Iran, meaning a real Italian in Tehran
- Bruges bar meetings and web-based threats
- Surprising encounters while traveling in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- Visiting Sydney where you get fake married
- See animals in Australia and boyfriend for an evening
- Alternative holiday and knowledge in Serbia
- Interesting encounters traveling in Africa
Casually I meet more women, but also some men
- Traveling the Via degli Dei, from Bologna to Florence
- Visiting Chiang Mai and falling off the bamboo bridge
- Visiting Angkor with Parisian lawyer.
- Weekend in Umbria, fog in the house and naked in the street
- Meeting people on the road in the island of cats
- Visiting an island in Thailand
- Meeting people on the road and prehistoric animal remains
- Tourist village in Egypt, a salacious cutback
- Solo trip to Thailand and the solo
- Visiting Tuscan islands, umbrella talk
- Sleeping in hostels, particularly in the 1990s
- What to Do in Emilia-Romagna and San Marino?
- Visiting Scotland and Liverpool, the most fun evening
- Hosting with couchsurfing
- Meetings on the road, certainly the apotheosis in Ireland
- While traveling in Iran, I hold press conferences
- Meetings in Iran, how is Bud Spencer doing?
- Baltic countries trip, Estonia first
- Tallinn-Helsinki ferry and bus to Riga
- Visiting Vilnius Brings New Experiences Every Time
- Surprise guest in birthday dinner
- Traveling to poor countries: being wallets with legs
- Meetings during trips to northern Italy
- Going to the Czech Republic and also to Bratislava but not only
- The penguin parade at Philip Island and the hitchhiker.
- Meetings on the road, when I was younger it was certainly easier
- During the Lisbon visit, friends of friends
- Meetings in New York and also Gospel Mass.
- Having fun in Spain, alone and in company
- Meetings during the Andean plateau tour
- Visiting New Orleans, beautiful discovery
- The veteran of the siege of Sarajevo
- Encounters Along the Way: What a Beautiful City Tbilisi Is!
- Travel working, life experience
- Interesting knowledge on the road; Miami expats
- Sympathetic encounters during trips to southern Italy
Podcasts in which I verbally recount chance encounters (in Italian only)
The most disastrous chance encounters, Hamburg and Havana
- Very varied traveling knowledge in northern Germany
- How to do it without money on a trip to Cuba, real adventure
